Sunday, August 31, 2008

John McCain recognizes strength of character when he sees it. He learned more about that then we will ever know while he was a POW. He saw it in Sarah Palin. She can stand up to the savage attack on her character that the Democrats are already launching. On the other side of the fence, Barack Obama is an solipsist and poseur who proved he cannot judge people intelligently when he picked dunce Joe Biden as his VP. Apparently O thinks that Joe complements him. In fact they are similar, being a pair of self-aggrandizing Senator-for-life gasbags who think talk is reality.

I don't know what the electorate will do in November. Count on Obama to have a great GOTV effort that could make the difference. But McCain has energized his base with the Palin pick, and every sleazyball effort by the Obamaniacs to crush her will only galvanize them more, so who knows.

My thought is that about four to six weeks before the election the voters will shift one way or the other, and that will be that.

As Senators Obama and McCain vie with the leaders of the European Union to promise 50, 60, even 80 per cent cuts in 'carbon emissions', it is clear that to realise even half their imaginary targets would necessitate a dramatic change in how we all live, and a drastic reduction in living standards.

All this makes it rather important to know just why our politicians have come to believe that global warming is the most serious challenge confronting mankind, and just how reliable is the evidence for the theory on which their policies are based."----------------------Worth reading--especially if you think "the debate is over," like Al Gore.

Political Punch: "'Well there's obvious differences,' Biden said, beginning to ham it up. 'She's good looking,' he said, laughing."-------------Biden is already unable to treat Palin as anything other than a babe. The debate between them should be hilarious. While he is patronizing her and being a loutish sexist, all the while thinking he is utterly charming, she will eat his lunch.

Obama vs. his staff - Politico.com Print View: "Just hours after his campaign issued a first statement Friday ripping the addition of Sarah Palin to the Republican ticket, Barack Obama backed away from that statement — or at least its tone — and said that his own campaign had misrepresented him. Obama often speaks of how important his staffers are to his bid and would be to his administration, and he’s praised them for covering for each other’s mistakes. But in the heat of the campaign, he’s publicly called them out for everything from missing an event to misrepresenting his policy positions to using his office to aid a donor. When asked about his campaign’s attack on Palin, attributed to top spokesman Bill Burton, at a Friday afternoon media availability at a Pennsylvania biodiesel plant, Obama referred to a statement he and running mate Joe Biden had since issued that hardly touched on policy issues and called Palin “an admirable person and … a compelling new voice.” Obama disavowed his campaign’s first response, telling journalists that “I think that, uh, you know, campaigns start getting these, uh, hair triggers and, uh, the statement that Joe and I put out reflects our sentiments,” he said."-----------------I have to admit that it would be entertaining to watch these two professional blowhards try to run the federal executive branch. They are quite a pair. Neither one has ever done anything except talk, and they can't even get that right.

Soon thereafter, with the plane over the Midwest, a spokeswoman gave reporters on board a much kinder statement from Biden and Obama.

“Her selection is yet another encouraging sign that old barriers are falling in our politics,” their statement said. “While we obviously have differences over how best to lead this country forward, Gov. Palin is an admirable person and will add a compelling new voice to this campaign.”"---------------If Obama didn't have the press propping him up he would have been out of the race in 2007.

Friday, August 29, 2008

Charles Krauthammer -- And Where Are The Witnesses To His Ability?: "The air of unease at the Democratic Convention this week was not just a result of the Clinton psychodrama. The deeper anxiety was that the party was nominating a man of many gifts but precious few accomplishments — bearing even fewer witnesses."--------------------...because he has never done anything except write about himself, make speeches about himself, and run for office.

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Media Blog on National Review Online: "The experience was surreal, amusing, and chilling. In a matter of hours, a major national campaign had called on its legions to bully a radio show out of airing an interview with a legitimate scholar asking legitimate political questions. Coupled with the Obama campaign's recent attempts to sic the DOJ on the creators of a truthful political advertisement —which also happened to feature Obama's relationship with an unrepentant terrorist— last night's call to action represents an emerging pattern. Any criticism of Obama's unknown past is to be immediately denounced as a 'smear,' and the messenger is to be shut down at all costs."------------------This is an account of what happened when Milt Rosenberg had the temerity to put Stanley Kurtz on the air for 2 hours, on WGN. The Obama campaign refused to send a speaker to debate Kurtz. Instead, the campaign sent out an email urging their followers to shut down the broadcast. And many of them tried to do just that. Tactics like these are reminiscent of 1930s Germany.

Michelle Obama -- currently on unpaid leave from her $317,000-a-year job as a vice president of the prestigious hospital -- helped create the program, which aims to find neighborhood doctors for low-income people who were flooding the emergency room for basic treatment. Hospital officials say such patients hinder their ability to focus on more critically ill patients in need of specialized care, such as cancer treatment and organ transplants.

Obama's top political strategist, David Axelrod, co-owns the firm, ASK Public Strategies, that was hired by the hospital last year to sell the program -- called the Urban Health Initiative -- to the community as a better alternative for poor patients. Obama's wife and Valerie Jarrett, an Obama friend and adviser who chairs the medical center's board, backed the Axelrod firm's hiring, hospital officials said."-------------------So this is the hope and change we can believe in? I wonder how deep the New York Times and Chicago Tribune and the networks and CNN will bury this story.

As nation watches Denver, Obama campaign muscles Chicago station over ex-radical Ayres | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times: "In a surprising attempt to stifle broadcast criticism of its candidate, the presidential campaign of freshman Illinois senator Barack Obama is organizing supporters to confront Chicago's WGN radio station for having a critic of the Illinois Democrat on its main evening discussion program."--------------------Behind the smile and lofty rhetoric beats the flinty heart of a Chicago machine politician. He ascended to the state senate by knocking all his Democratic opponents off the ballot. He got into the US Senate when his top Democratic challenger and then the Republican nominee were conveniently forced to pull out because his pals at the Chicago Tribune sued to divulge their sealed divorce records and then smeared them all over the front page. Obama ran against a nonentity (right wing lunatic Allen Keyes, who ended up on the ticket as a carpetbagger from Maryland) and won overwhelmingly. Now Obama is seeking criminal prosecution of stations airing the Ayres ad and applying harsh economic pressure to WGN as an example to other stations: run anything that hurts The One and you pay a big price.

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Barack Obama to address supporters from god-like setting :: Philip Sherwell: "Just wait for the accusations that Barack Obama thinks he's a god. The presidential candidate will deliver the most important speech of his political career this week from what Reuters is describing as an elaborate columned stage resembling a miniature Greek temple."------------"Godlike?" What do you mean, LIKE? "THINKS he's a god?" THINKS???

Justices Reject Curbs on Wine Sales: "The Supreme Court gave a boost to commerce between wineries and their far-flung customers yesterday, ruling that states that permit in-state vintners to sell directly to consumers may not deny that right to out-of-state producers."------------------

Will Wilkinson / The Fly Bottle » Blog Archive » Ranting Cant: "Climate eschatology really is the ultimate in big lie crisis politics. The far-left has failed so comprehensively to make the case for its vision of society and economy that the only thing left to do is to brazenly and repeatedly assert that the world will literally collapse unless we implement this otherwise indefensible vision."

Monday, August 25, 2008

Drought stricken, Iran buys US wheat for first time in 27 years: "Wracked by drought, Iran has turned to the United States for wheat for the first time in 27 years, marking a setback for Tehran's search for agricultural self-sufficiency."----------------See if you can find this in a major newspaper. If this happened when Clinton was president it would have led the evening news.

Adjusted gross income reported on tax returns in 2006 averaged $58,029. In 2006 dollars that was an increase of $739, or 1.2 percent, from the $57,289 average in 2000, analysis of Internal Revenue Service data showed."--------------Somebody better tell the O and Joe Show.

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Global Labor and Politics: Obama/Ayers Update: Annenberg Mystery Tour Continues: "In sum, the CAC records at UIC were more than likely in the valid possession of UIC when Dr. Kurtz asked to review them. No alarm bell should have been set off and he should have been allowed to review them freely and without hindrance. The University has now increased public uncertainty by refusing to disclose all of the relevant facts that surround this controversy. Until they do so, doubts will remain over whether the CAC collection is complete."-----------------------Steve Diamond (law professor and political scientist) presents circumstantial evidence suggesting that things may have unfolded like this: somebody in the UIC library realized that an Obama critic had been given permission to see the records, and contacted somebody outside the library, at which point alarm bells were raised, and then a bogus excuse concocted in order to delay while the records were purged of damaging material.

I do not know what happened. I do know this, though. UIC is being portrayed on a national stage in the worst light imaginable for an academic institution. National Review is a major publication with resources and connections, and they will not let go of this. We are looking at three months of bad press if this isn't dealt with.

There is only one way to redeem UIC's reputation: full disclosure of the entire chain of communication and details of all actions taken from the time Kurtz first inquired to the present. If there was any tampering with the records, that has to be fully disclosed and the responsible parties identified.

University to release Obama records: "WASHINGTON (AP) - The University of Illinois at Chicago said Friday it is releasing records of Barack Obama's service to a nonprofit organization linked to former 1960s radical William Ayers."----------------The University and the Machine have had a week in which they could have gone through the records to make sure that when they are made public there is nothing left to embarrass The One. I'm not saying they did that, because I don't know. But this being Chicago, and Ayres being a UIC professor, it wouldn't surprise me.

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Transcript: David Fredoso, author of The Case Against Barack Obama: "DF: Well you know, this is very typical, just like those other things, just like what you’re talking about now, the enormous raise, she [Michelle Obama] got a $200,000 dollar raise right after he was elected to the United States Senate, and he proceeded a year later to earmark a million dollars for her employer [the University of Chicago]. And people can decide for themselves what that looks like. I think it is an appearance of impropriety anyway. But you hear Senator Obama talk a lot about how the problem in Washington is that people with good lobbyists and good connections, and who donate the most money, always end up getting what they want. Well, I would submit that the reason for that is there are so many politicians like Senator Obama, because that’s basically what he’s done throughout his entire career. It’s a really remarkable and audacious claim he makes about hope and change, just considering how he is right up there with all of the worst practices that he criticizes. He’s performing them. He votes for the Bridge To Nowhere, whose purpose was the funnel millions of dollars to contractors who would build it, and to help people whose land values on a worthless island in Alaska with no people on it, so that their land prices would suddenly explode."------------------This link goes to the transcript of this two-hour interview. If you don't know how Obama got elected to the state senate, or the US Senate, or his relationships with questionable people, or his evasive legislative practices, or much else because the press refuses to cover it, you can get the general idea from this interview.

'Numb's the word,' says the 192-year-old publication, which claims an accuracy rate of 80 to 85 percent for its forecasts that are prepared two years in advance.

The almanac's 2009 edition, which goes on sale Tuesday, says at least two-thirds of the country can expect colder than average temperatures, with only the Far West and Southeast in line for near-normal readings."------------------It's no wonder the public has lost interest in the global warming scare. The weather has been cold for years. Last winter was brutal. This summer is cool. The upcoming winter is predicted to be cold. Computer projections and Hollywood movies don't cut much ice (pun intended).

Global Labor and Politics: "Annenberg-Gate" - It's not the crime, it's the cover upThis is from Steve Diamond, a law professor and political scientist at the University of Santa Clara. It is his take on the bizarre refusal of UIC to permit a researcher to see documents in the library that deal with the relationship between Barack Obama and UIC education professor and former Weatherman/terrorist Bill Ayers. The internet is going nuts over this and UIC looks bad. It looks at this point like UIC may be protecting Obama, who may have been a lot closer to Ayers than he has admitted. The documents deal with something called the Annenberg Challenge, an education initiative that both of them were deeply involved with, it seems. You can read this blog entry and see if you think it is a coverup or not.

News from The Associated Press: "BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraqi and U.S. negotiators have finished work on a draft security agreement that would see all American troops leave Iraqi cities by June 30 and the rest of the country by the end of 2011, Iraqi officials said Wednesday."--------------If this is agreed to the Iraq war issue would shrink in importance, and the 2008 election would presumably become more about domestic issues and, of course, the disturbing increase of tensions between the US and Russia over eastern Europe.

Now the conservative Media Research Center says the imbalance is far greater than anyone imagined.

The advocacy group, which lives to complain about liberal bias, has studied the coverage on the network evening newscasts from May 2000 (the first mention of the senator from Illinois) through the end of the Democratic primaries in June. Overall, the group says, 34 percent of the stories about Obama were positive and 5 percent negative. The rest were characterized as neutral."--------------------This campaign has been a huge embarrassment to the major media, but they don't seem to care. They have lost credibility, circulation, and money, but they keep on rooting for The One even as the electorate seems to be increasingly skeptical about him.

EDWARDS' CRUEL WIFE JAB: REPORT - New York Post: "Just before the former presidential contender confessed his adultery to ABC News on Aug. 8, he secretly flew Rielle Hunter and her 6-month-old child, Frances Quinn, from California to the US Virgin Islands, according to the National Enquirer, which first exposed their affair.

And after the interview, in which he denied loving Hunter or fathering the baby, he called her to say, 'We'll be together when Elizabeth is gone,' the tabloid reported."--------------------It appears that Edwards has set up a neat little arrangement with Ms. Hunter that is going to come to fruition after his wife dies. In the meantime, he lies about the whole thing and Hunter just stays in hiding. Quite a guy. I wonder how his supporters feel about him now. I also wonder if they are questioning their own judgment, as they should, because it was obvious long ago that Edwards was the most dishonest candidate for president in memory. Many columnists were pointing out that he had simply reversed himself on every issue and remade his image between 2004 and 2007, going from centrist to leftist because he saw the market for that kind of candidate. This man has no soul.

That jibes with what Jerry Parrino, owner of Internet Halloween-costume retailer TheHorrorDome.com, told FOXNews.com last week.

'It definitely looks like our [Sasquatch] costume,' Parrino said after viewing photos of the body.

The Biscardi team immediately went into crisis mode. Biscardi called Whitton and Dyer at their California hotel. They admitted it was a hoax and agreed to sign a promissory note at a meeting set for 8 a.m. Pacific time at the hotel.

But when Biscardi got there, he 'found that they had left.'"-------------------These jokers got a ton of publicity by lying about a Halloween costume. Truth had nothing to do with it. It was all about the buzz. There is a message here for all of us. Take a look at the political campaigns this year.

“The US is not out of the woods. I think the financial crisis is at the halfway point, perhaps. I would even go further to say the worst is to come,” Prof Rogoff said at a conference in Singapore.

In an ominous warning, he added: “We’re not just going to see mid-sized banks go under in the next few months, we’re going to see a whopper, we’re going to see a big one — one of the big investment banks or big banks,” he said."-------------He also says Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are going to go bye-bye. You can't accuse him of being a Pollyanna.

Barack Obama & Born-Alive Infants Protection Act: "In 2001, Senator Barack Obama was the only member of the Illinois senate to speak against a bill that would have recognized premature abortion survivors as “persons.” The bill was in response to a Chicago-area hospital that was leaving such babies to die. Obama voted “present” on the bill after denouncing it. It passed the state Senate but died in a state house committee.

In 2003, a similar bill came before Obama’s health committee. He voted against it. But this time, the legislation was slightly different. This latter version was identical to the federal Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, which by then had already passed the U.S. Senate unanimously (with a hearty endorsement even from abortion advocate Sen. Barbara Boxer) and had been signed into law by President Bush."-----------------Once again, the blogs are doing the examination of Obama's record that the media won't do.

Monday, August 18, 2008

Don Surber » Blog Archive » ObamabortionObama said deciding when a baby gets human rights is "above his pay grade." Here is evidence that 7 years ago it was not above his pay grade to oppose defining a fetus as a person. What a surprise--the baby loses. Wow. I never saw that coming.

Quoth His Magnificence:------------------“Number one, whenever we define a pre-viable fetus as a person that is protected by the Equal Protection Clause or the other elements in the Constitution, what we’re really saying is, in fact, that they are persons that are entitled to the kinds of protections that would be provided to a — a child, a 9-month old — child that was delivered to term. That determination then, essentially, if it was accepted by a court, would forbid abortions to take place. I mean, it — it would essentially bar abortions, because the Equal Protection Clause does not allow somebody to kill a child, and if this is a child, then this would be an anti-abortion statute.”------------------

If true, it would be the third high-profile faking incident of the ceremony, after it was revealed a girl was substituted as a singer because she was deemed too ugly, and supposedly live fireworks on the TV broadcast were pre-recorded."-------------------Oh, and half of the little girls on the "women's" gymnastic team still have most of their baby teeth.

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Granholm: Don't use woes of mayor against Obama | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press: "LANSING -- Gov. Jennifer Granholm said Wednesday it would be 'incredibly cynical and wrong' for Republicans to use Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's growing controversy as a bludgeon against presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama."------------Yes, it would. But that hasn't happened, has it? You know what else would be incredibly cynical and wrong? If a staunch Clinton supporter such as Granholm put Obama and Kilpatrick in the same sentence in order to remind the media that Obama spoke highly of Kilpatrick until the scandal blew up, while super-cynically claiming that she was just warning people about what those evil Republicans were going to do.

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Russian convoy rolls through Gori, violating truce - Los Angeles Times: "GORI, Georgia -- Russian tanks and armored units rolled through this key Georgian city today hours after its leaders accepted a peace deal in which Moscow would pull its troops back to positions before hostilities between the country began over the disputed breakaway region of South Ossetia six days ago."-------------------I wonder what percentage of the US population even remembers the Cold War. And fewer recall how the USSR conducted itself within the confines of its empire. There are good reasons why all those former satellite nations and republics became independent.

Many of those who received tickets told 7NEWS they have come with a caveat.

Those viewers said the campaign told them they must volunteer six hours for the campaign by Friday in order to get a ticket."---------------Recall that The One said he wanted a civilian national security force and mandatory "volunteer" work in order to graduate from high school or college? Well, he is putting that principle into practice already. Want to hear the Big Speech? You are required to do six hours of "volunteer" work.

Decade has had fewest 90-degree days since 1930 -- chicagotribune.com: "August is the wettest and often the muggiest month of the year. Yet, summer heat continues in short supply, continuing a trend that has dominated much of the 21st Century's opening decade. There have been only 162 days 90 degrees or warmer at Midway Airport over the period from 2000 to 2008. That's by far the fewest 90-degree temperatures in the opening nine years of any decade on record here since 1930."----------------I saw a headline the other day lamenting the fact that Americans are growing less worried about global warming. Pretty hard to panic them with doom and gloom predictions when they can't feel the heat.

<b>SEX, MORE LIES & VIDEOTAPE</b> - Celebrity News | Gossip - National Enquirer: "After Edwards confessed the affair to his wife, he restarted it, and was sexually involved with Rielle when she became pregnant. Despite his denials, Edwards WAS aware that his former finance committee chairman, Fred Baron, was funneling money to Rielle. Experts are now calling for a federal investigation into Edwards' use of campaign funds."----------------If Edwards paid off his mistress with campaign funds, lying to his wife and the country will be the least of his problems.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Russia, US Swap Warnings as Condoleezza Rice Visits Georgia | Europe | Deutsche Welle | 10.07.2008This is for background. On July 9, the Secretary of State was in Georgia trying to head off the military conflict that began a month later. The article describes some of the things the US and its allies in Eastern Europe have been doing that made Russia feel threatened. One big issue is the deal with the Czech Republic allowing the US to install part of a missile defense system there. That system is a major problem for Russia.

But critics told the Wall Street Journal that Rice may not have responded quickly to Russia's muscle-flexing on Georgia's border because she has been focused elsewhere -- preoccupied with Iraq, Iran and the Arab-Israeli conflict -- and delegated the Soviet account to more junior officials."----------------She delegated the Soviet account to more junior officials? Say what?

I wonder if those junior officials still have jobs in the State Department.

“It was a bad crisis for the world. It required tough words but also a smart approach to call on the international community to step in. And I’m very, very happy that the Senator's request for a ceasefire has been complied with by President Medvedev.”

Of course the Russians complied with his request. They've also started inflating their tires in order to reduce domestic demand and free up oil for export markets. It's like we don't even need to elect Obama to the White House--he can stop the rise of the seas, heal the planet, and bring us peace in our time just by issuing press releases from the comfort of his Hawaiian retreat."-----------------The arrogance of Obama and his entire campaign defies parody. Kaine is one of the top contenders to be The One's VP candidate. With John "Baby Daddy" Edwards presumably out of the running, I guess Kaine's chances went up, and now that he has set an all-time record for brown nosing, they went up another notch. I give him three brown noses out of a possible three.

McCain, not Obama, was right about Georgia :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Steve Huntley: "One who was up to speed on Georgia and the menace it faced from Russia was veteran Sen. John McCain. He had visited the Caucasian nation three times in a dozen years. When fighting erupted, the presumptive Republican presidential candidate got on the phone to gather details and issued a statement Friday summarizing the situation, tagging Russia as the aggressor and demanding it withdraw its forces from the sovereign territory of Georgia. It took first-term Sen. Barack Obama three tries to get it right. Headed for a vacation in Hawaii, the presumed Democratic candidate for commander in chief issued an even-handed statement, urging restraint by both sides. Later Friday, he again called for mutual restraint but blamed Russia for the fighting. The next day his language finally caught up with toughness of McCain's."--------------------Picky, picky, picky. So Obama fumbled around like President Bush. What really matters is that Obama is bringing Hope and Change!!!

By the way, why didn't Bush and his vaunted Russia expert, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, handle this situation better? They seem to have been caught by surprise by something they should have at least anticipated, and maybe been able to head off.

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Commentary » Blog Archive » The MSM’s Latest Embarrassment: "The Edwards mess is the most recent and visible, but hardly unique, example of the mainstream media’s hear no evil/see no evil approach to newsgathering. How many other stories has the MSM missed, denied or avoided? From Rathergate to Reverend Wright to the success of the surge, the pattern is the same: MSM stalls, shuffles its collective feet, and doggedly ignores information for as long as possible until they can no longer do so with a straight face. The fact that these stories without exception work to the detriment of Democrats is apparently a grand coincidence."--------------------The outcry over the major media's covering for Edwards is getting more intense.

Saturday, August 9, 2008

Don Surber » Blog Archive » Quote du jour: "Republican Sen. John McCain: “Taking in my opponent’s performances is a little like watching a big summer blockbuster, and an hour in, realizing that all the best scenes were in the trailer you saw last fall.”"

ABC News: Mistress' Family Challenges Edwards to Take DNA Test: "The family of John Edwards' former mistress, Rielle Hunter, is challenging the former senator to take a DNA paternity test after his claim that he did not father Hunter's 6-months-old child."-----------------Adulterer and liar John Edwards said he "would" take a paternity test, whatever that means. Would, if what?. Why didn't he just take the test and establish that he isn't the child's father...if that's what he really believes? Now he has been challenged by his mistress' family to follow through on his "would" and take the test. His bluff, if that's what it is, has just been called.

I think if he had any real intention of taking a test, he would already have done it. On the other hand, if he is lying (again) about the affair ending in 2006, and it really continued until about May of 2007, which seems to have been when the baby was conceived, then he might be a little nervous about that paternity test. That is one possible explanation for "would" instead of "did."

Maybe he figures if he just doesn't respond to the challenge, the media will let him off the hook. That would be consistent with their behavior so far.

Georgia: Russia enters into 'war' in South Ossetia - Telegraph: "Columns of Russian tanks plunged the two neighbours into war as they filed into South Ossetia, marking the Kremlin's first military assault on foreign soil since the Soviet Union's Afghanistan intevention, which ended in 1989."---------------This is ugly. Georgia has been independent of Russia since 1991. The region called Ossetia is partly in Russia (North Ossetia) and partly in Georgia (South Ossetia). South Ossetia acts like an independent nation and wants to be joined to North Ossetia as part of Russia. Georgia is trying to reclaim South Ossetia. They have just been confronted by Russia, which has sent tanks into South Ossetia. In other words, Russia just invaded the sovereign nation of Georgia.

Two other issues: Georgia is a US ally that wants to join NATO. And there is an oil pipeline through the area that Russia wants to control. Ugly.

Old media dethroned - Los Angeles Times: "When John Edwards admitted Friday that he lied about his affair with filmmaker Rielle Hunter, a former employee of his campaign, he may have ended his public life but he certainly ratified an end to the era in which traditional media set the agenda for national political journalism."----------------------------The tabloids and the blogs and AM talk radio had the truth and they printed the truth. And the "traditional media," meaning print media and tv networks, had the truth and decided to withhold it from the public. Why? To protect the Democratic party. Edwards was, until yesterday, on Obama's short list for VP.

If the affair and love child had been Mitt Romney's, this story would have been front page news since 2006.

Friday, August 8, 2008

ABC News: Edwards Admits to Sexual Affair; Lied as Presidential Candidate: "John Edwards repeatedly lied during his Presidential campaign about an extra-marital affair with a novice film-maker, the former Senator admitted to ABC News today."-------------Gee, what a surprise. If you rely on the mainstream media, that is. How about this part: "When the National Enquirer first reported the alleged Edwards-Hunter affair last October 11, Edwards, his campaign staff and Hunter vociferously denounced the report. "The story is false, it's completely untrue, it's ridiculous," Edwards told reporters then. He repeated his denials just two weeks ago. Edwards today admitted the National Enquirer was correct when it reported he had visited Hunter at the Beverly Hills Hilton last month."

So, Edwards is a serial liar and adulterer. The mainstream media are once again proven to be in the tank for the Democrats because they refused to report on the hotel incident and all the other evidence. And National Enquirer was proven to be right. And the blogs were right.

Thursday, August 7, 2008

Edwards’ Party Role Clouded by Allegations - America’s Election HQ: "John Edwards’ reluctance to refute allegations that he had an affair and child with his former videographer could jeopardize his potential role as a Democratic National Convention speaker and surrogate for his party’s presumptive nominee."--------------This story has been all over the tabs and the blogs for weeks now but, bizarrely, the major media refuse to cover it at all. Eventually they will have no choice. With Fox getting on it, I guess the time has come.

Have the Clintons Gotten Over It? - TIME: "In private conversations, associates say, Clinton remains skeptical that Obama can win in the fall. That's a sentiment some other Democrats believe is not just a prediction but a wish, because it would prove her right about his weaknesses as a general-election candidate and possibly pave the way for her to run again in 2012. Clinton is also annoyed that Obama has yet to deliver on his end of an informal bargain, reached as part of their truce, that each would raise $500,000 for the other. 'Hillary has done her part in that regard,' says an adviser. 'Obama has not.'"-----------------And she seems to be insisting on having her name placed in the running at the convention, and a roll call vote. People are starting to take note that His Magnificence hasn't been able to break 50% in the polls yet and wondering if that will continue until the general election. And here is Clinton, finding subtle ways to say, "I told you so, and I'm still here..."

It seems inconceivable that Obama could be unseated as the Democrat nominee, but anything is possible.

Breitbart.tv » Obama to 7-Year-Old: ‘America Is No Longer What It Could Be, What It Once Was’In which Obama manages to be both inarticulate, inane, and inappropriate at the same time. You don't say things like that to a 7 year old. Period. And given how far this clown has gone while contributing so little, I don't see what he and his whiny wife are complaining about. His kids are living in luxury; they live in a mansion their daddy acquired due to his sleazy political connections; their father is a Senator who has gotten rich and famous by writing about himself and not much else; their mother has a huge paycheck...which of the above does this empty suit not want for his children, exactly?

Life in this country has never been better than it is today, and anybody who doubts that should come up with a time when it was better. And life here is better than anyplace on earth.

University students 'cannot spell' - Telegraph: "Many undergraduates misspell basic words such as 'their', 'speech' or even 'Wednesday' in essays, it is claimed. First year students are the worst offenders, despite already spending at least 13 years in the education system. Standards have deteriorated to such an extent that one leading academic has been forced to ignore common errors altogether. Dr Ken Smith, a senior lecturer in criminology at Bucks New University, said 'atrocious' spelling was rife among new undergraduates, with many failing to apply basic rules, such as 'i before e, except after c'. The words 'weird', 'seize', 'leisure' and 'neighbor' are regularly misspelled by students, he said."--------------These are Brits, but the same holds true here in the US. It even happens in papers written using word processors that have instant spell checkers.

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Moqtada Packs It In - WSJ.com: "Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr plans to announce Friday that he will disarm his Mahdi Army, which was raining mortars on Baghdad's Green Zone as recently as April. Coupled with the near-total defeat of al Qaeda in Iraq, this means the U.S. no longer faces any significant organized military foe in the country. It also marks a major setback for Iran, which had used the Mahdi Army as one of its primary vehicles for extending its influence in Iraq."-----------------------------Remember this fellow? He was headline news when he was leading this army and they were wreaking havoc and making us look bad. But now he is out of business.

“If” –?? What is Bush talking about? That ship has sailed. That train has left the station. That bomb is out of the bag. North Korea already has a nuclear weapon, and more likely it has a number of them.----------------I hope and trust this is some complicated diplomatic double-speak designed to produce some mysterious and subtle effect. Maybe it has to do with their promises to dismantle their weapons (does anybody believe that promise?). Or maybe President Bush was misquoted. Or...I hesitate to speculate further.

Pedestrian accidents are a 'huge problem in the city' :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: News: "Here's a sobering fact to consider when you're out for a walk -- on average, 71 pedestrians are killed and 930 are seriously injured every year in Chicago. Nearly one-third of the accidents are hit-and-runs."----------------So we have 2 or 3 serious injuries per day, and one or two fatalities every week. I'm not surprised. I walk from Union Station to UIC, and I have to dodge idiot drivers all the time. They act as though there are no pedestrians or bikes around. Blowing red lights at high speed is routine. Fifty mph down Jackson toward the loop. Turning right without stopping at the light. Talking on cell phones. Turning from the wrong lane. Blocking crosswalks.

Where are the cops, may I ask? Has anybody ever seen them issue a traffic citation, or is that perhaps somebody else's job? I see them going in and out of the 7-11, so I know they exist.

In May, when a McCain adviser proposed a series of pre-convention appearances at town hall meetings, Obama said, 'I think that's a great idea.' In summer stumping on the campaign trail, McCain has often noted that Obama had not followed through and joined him in any events.

Obama's reversal on town hall debates is part of a play-it-safe strategy he's adopted since claiming the nomination and grabbing a lead in national polls."--------------He doesn't have much of a lead and it is shrinking. The reason he is backing down from the town halls and will only do three conventional debates with zero town halls is simple: he is a lightweight who knows McCain would clean his clock, and he is afraid (with good reason) that he will make gaffes that will expose his glib, superficial, shallow political persona for the charade it is.

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I am a professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and an adjunct professor at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago. Nothing contained in this blog represents the opinions of UIC or John Marshall, and nothing you see here is legal advice. You can reach me at ecmlaw@gmail.com